Angil Tarach-Ritchey RN, GCM is a Best-Selling Author, National Expert in Eldercare, Senior Advocate, Speaker and Consultant. With over 30 years experience. Her latest book Behind the Old Face: Aging in America and the Coming Elder Boom has been endorsed by leaders in healthcare and is a Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. This blog was written to help seniors and their families with education, information and resources, but is now moved to Angil's website www.elderboom.org

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

I typically write about things related to aging, eldercare, and chronic illness, but wrote an article about publishing choices for a blog that focuses on Baby Boomers literature for their BoomerLit Fridays.

The Elder Boom Foundation Daily is an online paper that you can subscribe to and you'll receive it in your email daily, but the content comes from a variety of sources daily so there really isn't anything to download as a PDF. I appreciate your interest and hope you will subscribe and see the value daily. You can always unsubscribe if it doesn't meet your needs. Thank you for commenting!

Thanks for the article! I just found your website and I'm appreciating all the information. I'm new to the stage, but with my grandfather recently being diagnosed with alzheimer's, I'll probably be here for a while.

We really need to make sure that the seniors in our community are getting taken care of. If we can manage to do that, it'll be so much more of a help. We definitely want to make sure that's what we're doing!

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Angil Tarach-Ritchey RN, GCM is an author, speaker, consultant and national expert in senior care. With over 30 years experience in senior care and advocacy Angil is very passionate about eldercare and is well respected in her field.
Angil has written 3 books, and recently released "Behind the Old Face: Aging in America and the Coming Elder Boom" on November 13, 2012, which has received excellent endorsements from 2 nursing organizations. She has also written a cutting edge M2E Book, "The Aging Question: A Vision for the Coming Elder Boom", which is a mini-media ebook and preview of "Behind the Old Face." It includes text, photos and video clips of 2 of the aging adults Angil interviewed and features in "Behind the Old Face." Her 1st book was written for Kindle and is the 2011 edition of Quick Guide to Understanding Medicare, Medicaid and other payer sources which remained on the best seller list for its category for a full year, despite being outdated. Angil has written for several websites including NurseTogether, the Alzheimer's Reading Room, Wellsphere, the National Senior Living Provider’s Network, Ann Arbor News, and her own blog, Aging in America. Her passion and expertise have led to being published in the Chicago Sun Times, Maturity Matters, Medpedia, Vitamins Health, Medworm, Alzheimer’s New Zealand and several other publications. She has been featured on Nurse Talk, WE Magazine for Women; Women on a Mission, Life Goes Strong, You and Me Health Magazine, His Is Mine, and Abec’s Small Business Review and quoted in several publications, such as CNBC, Reuters, Consumer Affairs, PTO Today, Women Entrepreneur and more. Chronic illness has been a part of Angil's life since 2003. After 5 years of struggling with a life changing "mystery" illness she was finally diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Her unique perspective as a nurse and patient is evident in her writing and advocacy, and makes her experiences even more relatable to those she assists and educates. Personally Angil is married to her "best friend", as she describes her husband Bernie Ritchey and they have a blended family of 5 adult children and 4 grandchildren. She and her husband are active Christians who are involved in their church and World Vision, in which Bernie is a Child Ambassador.

Testimonies from Client's & Associates

April 2010

"I wanted you and your wonderful staff who sat with my husband for weeks, went home to be with the Lord. Once again please thank your caregivers for their excellent and compassionate care of my husband. I will be sure to highly recommend yiur organization to anyone that asks"

Carol

March 2010

"I had the opportunity to engage Angil for assistance with my Mom and her recent end of life care. I am eternally grateful to her, and cannot properly express my thanks.

Her passion, care and dedication to her cause and her clients are unmatched. Everyone on her staff shares her compassion, professionalism and dedication to dignity, care and comfort of the patients they serve.

Should you have a lived one in need of dignified and compassionate care, I would not hesistate for one second to make Visiting Angels your one and only call."

Brian Bundeson

March 2009

“I first met Ms. Tarach in 2002 when her organization was hired by my father to provide in-home care. Consistent with my father’s desire, our goal was to get him back home with the support he needed so he could live his life as he desired. A large part of this process involved securing care in his home. We were not interested in just any type of homecare. Along with wanting to secure homecare that was reputable and of high quality, we also wanted one with a commitment and demonstrated core competencies to the principles of self-determination and self-directed care. Through a process of researching, recruiting and interviewing potential home care providers, my father selected Ms. Tarach, and Visiting Angels. The support and service provided by and through Angil were exemplary. First, they understood the person-centered planning process involved in the development of my dad’s self-directed care plan. This included considerations across his life domains, such as family, friendships, relationships, personal interests, culture and health care, as key examples. It is noteworthy that given the various health issues my father had, there was a good deal of care coordination required. As a Registered Nurse Ms. Tarach very well understood the critical need for coordinating support and service, in my father’s best interest and care. She went above and beyond, being a major part of an on-going, very successful team that supported and cared for him. Second, Visiting Angels understood the practice of implementing and managing my father’s self-directed care plan as evidenced by the way they carried it out and problem solved issues that came up. Most importantly, my own observations in seeing staff working in the home, private conversations I had with my father regarding how things were working out with his caregiver’s, the service and Ms. Tarach, clearly left me realizing that my father was very satisfied. It was apparent that he was “home” and not in an institutional arrangement, realizing that some people can feel institutionalized in their own home when outside services are involved”. Rich Visingardi, Ph.D. Family Member and former state director of mental health, developmental disabilities and substance abuse services”

Rich Visingardi

March 2009

“I have had the privilege to know Angil for seven years. In that time I have watched her follow her true passion in caring for the elderly. Angil was a component professional in the nursing field prior to starting her home care agency. She opened Visiting Angel’s knowing that her talents and commitment would enhance and improve the lives of many. Angil’s success comes from a genuine love and concern for the elderly. She is a strong advocate for her clients and holds principle and ethics as a corner stone of her agency’s care. I would not hesitate to have Angil’s staff care for any of my family members. Angil is a valued colleague and friend that I would recommend highly.”

Farah Ogle

Companion Homecare Inc

February 2009

“Angil has been one of our best customers for years. Her commitment to her agency and to the people to whom she provides care is clear and powerful. She is very insightful about the homecare industry and is very generous with her knowledge. Angil's outspoken loyalty and generosity have made a tremendous difference in the success of our company.”

Tom Voiles -Owner Shoshana Technologies

February 2009

“I worked briefly with Angil in 2006-2007 as Marketing Director at Visiting Angels and she was also a client of mine when I sold radio advertising. You will not meet a person with a bigger heart or more love for seniors than Angil. She has gone above and beyond the call of duty many times to ensure the comfort and satisfaction of her clients and she has done a heck of a job starting her own business. Over the next 20 years, the senior healthcare industry will be booming and we are all fortunate people like Angil are leading the charge.”